Populate \Pop"u*late\, a. [L. populus people. See {People}.] Populous. [Obs.] --Bacon.
Populate \Pop"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Populated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Populating}.] To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
Populate \Pop"u*late\, v. i. To propagate. [Obs.]
Great shoals of people which go on to populate. --Bacon.
General Leonides Goncalves, a former commander of the Amazon region, argues: 'Not to exploit and populate this area is a luxury Brazil cannot afford.
These are just a sampling of the hundreds of subspecies that now populate the roughly $500 billion world of collateralized mortgage obligations.
Great voices populate the cast.
Most of the characters who populate Walter Kirn's first book of stories, "My Hard Bargain" (Knopf, 145 pages, $18.95), are bona fide country folk.
Mr. Valenti said the figures indicate movie studios "no longer can blindly count on growing legions of teen-agers to populate the theaters."
Dinosaurs act out the origin of the Earth to the strains of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring." Fauns, centaurs and a drunken Bacchus populate Mount Olympus in Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony."
Faced with the impatient throngs that populate Yankee Stadium, they'd better, George or no George.
Among characters who now populate "General Hospital" are: _ The menage a trois of Robert Scorpio (Tristan Rogers), Anna Devane (Finola Hughes), and Duke Lavery (Ian Buchanan).
It's the amount he lifts, and whether he can narrow the gap that separates him from the East Europeans who populate the activity's top echelon.